Witchcraft suspected after body stolen from tomb

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QMI Agency

Feb 11, 2014

, Last Updated: 12:45 PM ET

An elderly woman's body was exhumed in Belize last week and her grandson suspects someone might be selling her bones for black magic.

Felipa Sanchez died 20 years ago at the age of 87, and her remains were stolen Tuesday from her Orange Walk District tomb. A nearby resident reported hearing a loud bang around 3 a.m., News 5 in Belize reports.

"We were doing community service — painting the community centre of Douglas — when my old lady received a phone call that my granny's tomb was broken. So I picked her up in my truck and when we reach the burying ground, we saw all the cloth outside. So my mommy get so frighten that she said, 'Son, take me back home,'" the deceased's grandson, Albertico Alamilla, told News 5. The family said Sanchez wasn't buried with anything valuable.

The grandson said older people in the village told him human bones are sometimes used for black magic.